I’ve got one pair for each show on the upcoming tour. We’re gonna offer them one show at a time.
Note: this is admission only. Just a pair of tickets.

First show is Sunday, November 12 at Madison Square Garden. If you’d like a pair of tickets to this show, send an email to DEADCO@WELL.COM – put the show date in the SUBJECT line and include your name, email address, and phone number in the body of the message.

We’ll pick a winner at random in a couple of days, and then I’ll announce the next giveaway.

Starting in on the complete unreleased soundboard recording of August 15, 1971, Grateful Dead at the Berkeley Community Theater. The BCT is a 3500-seat sit-down theater, not an arena nor s ballroom with a dance floor. That made me happy at the time because I wanted to sit attentively and watch the musicians. But there was plenty of dancing in the aisles!

This is a very powerful Grateful Dead here, the original five guys – Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan. Pigpen was still delivering strong vocal performances, but he wasn’t really adding much on the keyboards. This show takes place a couple of months before Keith Godchaux joins the band on piano, and you can sorta feel the niche opening up for a new voice in the songs and in the jams. We’ll talk more about the music over the next few weeks. This first segment is all short songs, with the somewhat unusual choice of “Big Railroad Blues” to open. It’s 8/15/71. Enjoy!

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:

Dead and Company – Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, John Mayer, Jeff Chimenti and Oteil Burbridge – on tour November 12 through December 8. Complete details and ticketing at www.deadandcompany.com. That’s Dead and Company, on tour from November 12 through December 8.

The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. Umphrey’s McGee return to The Cap for 2 nights, October 20th and 21st. It’ll be a psychedelic sea of mesmerizing light shows and shredding guitars. Events, information, and ticketing at thecapitoltheatre.com.

]]>http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com/archives/9972/feed0WNKU bites the dusthttp://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com/archives/9969
http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com/archives/9969#commentsWed, 20 Sep 2017 13:13:19 +0000http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com/?p=9969We knew this was coming. The new owners are taking over at WNKU, and all their current programming – including the GD Hour – will cease after this week.

Damn.

Cincinnati-area listeners, is there another radio station that might be interested?

You still have Ramblin’ Rob’s Greatest Story Ever Told, Thursdays 8-10pm on WAIF 88.3

The June 10 panel discussion was the unveiling of an exhibit on the Grateful Dead in Colorado, now permanently installed at the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, located in the trading post at Red Rocks in Morrison CO. Take a look the next time you’re up there!

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:

The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. Umphrey’s McGee returns to The Cap for 2 nights on October 20th and 21st. Psychedelic light shows and shredding guitar solos will be in full effect. Events, information, and ticketing at thecapitoltheatre.com.

Dead & Company – Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, John Mayer, Jeff Chimenti and Oteil Burbridge – on tour November 12 through December 8. Complete details and ticketing at deadandcompany.com. That’s Dead & Company, on tour from November 12 through December 8.

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. Acclaimed alt-country rockers Drive-By Truckers will get rowdy at The Cap on Friday, October 6. Strand of Oaks opens with a special brand of indie Americana. Events, information, and ticketing at thecapitoltheatre.com.

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from Garcia’s at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. One of the Northeast’s premier Grateful Dead cover bands, Gratefully Yours, lets the good times roll at Garcia’s on WED, SEP 20. Deadhead friends and family gather at Garcia’s! Events, information, and ticketing at thecapitoltheatre.com.

John Mayer was kind enough to send me a list of favorite moments from the summer’s Dead & Company tour. This “Estimated Prophet” was on that list, and rightly so! You can get this and other Dead & Company concert recordings in a variety of configurations from livedead.co

The Grateful Dead Hour is made possible in part this week by:

Dead and Company’s Playing in the Sand, an all-inclusive Caribbean concert vacation in Riviera Maya, Mexico featuring Three Dead & Company concerts on the beach. Playing in the Sand happens Feb 15 – 18, 2018. That’s Dead and Company’s Playing in the Sand — Riviera Maya, Mexico — February 15 through 18th. Information and ticketing at playinginthesand.com

The Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York. Rock icons Little Feat put on their sailing; shoes at The Cap on Saturday, September 9th. On Sunday, September 17, WFUV Presents singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile for an Acoustic Evening of Songs and Stories. Events, information, and ticketing at thecapitoltheatre.com.